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David Ayer

Screenwriter / Film Director / Film Producer / Actor | * 01/18/1968 (56) | Champaign, Illinois (United States of America (USA))
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David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption. His screenplays include Training Day (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001), and S.W.A.T. (2003). He has also directed Harsh Times (2005), Street Kings (2008), End of Watch (2012), Sabotage (2014), and The Beekeeper (2024). In 2016, he directed the superhero movie Suicide Squad from the DC Extended Universe, and then the urban fantasy film Bright... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Action | Drama | Crime

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From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange ...

Suicide Squad

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2016 | 3.0/5 | 2h 3min
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to fin ...

Harsh Times

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2005 | 3.2/5 | 1h 56min
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
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Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop. ...

End of Watch

Κ-18

2012 | 3.7/5 | 1h 49min
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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John "Breacher" Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their ...

Sabotage

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2014 | 2.8/5 | 1h 50min
Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Movies with David Ayer as Actor(9)

as himself2020 Joker: Put on a Happy Face
as himself2016 DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
as NLR member in County Jail (uncredited)2008 Street Kings
as himself2008 A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
as himself2008 The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
as himself2008 The Business End: Violence in Cinema
as himself2008 The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
as himself2008 The Craft of Dirty Harry
as First Russian Hitman (uncredited)2001 Training Day

Movies with David Ayer as Crew(39)

Production/Executive Producer2024 Bosco
Directing/Director2024 The Beekeeper
Directing/Director2023 El-Alamein
Directing/Director2023 Six Years
Production/Producer2023 Six Years
Writing/Writer2023 Six Years
Directing/Director2023 The Dirty Dozen
Production/Producer2023 The Dirty Dozen
Writing/Screenplay2023 The Dirty Dozen
Crew/Thanks2021 The Suicide Squad
Production/Executive Producer2020 Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Directing/Director2020 The Tax Collector
Writing/Screenplay2020 The Tax Collector
Production/Executive Producer2019 Ready for War
Directing/Director2017 Bright
Production/Producer2017 Bright
Directing/Director2016 Suicide Squad
Writing/Writer2016 Suicide Squad
Directing/Director2014 Sabotage
Production/Producer2014 Sabotage
Writing/Writer2014 Sabotage
Directing/Director2014 Fury
Production/Producer2014 Fury
Writing/Writer2014 Fury
Directing/Director2012 End of Watch
Production/Producer2012 End of Watch
Writing/Screenplay2012 End of Watch
Directing/Director2008 Street Kings
Directing/Director2005 Harsh Times
Production/Producer2005 Harsh Times
Writing/Writer2005 Harsh Times
Production/Production Consultant2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Writing/Screenplay2003 S.W.A.T.
Writing/Screenplay2002 Dark Blue
Crew/Stunts2001 Training Day
Production/Co-Producer2001 Training Day
Writing/Screenplay2001 Training Day
Writing/Screenplay2001 The Fast and the Furious
Writing/Screenplay2000 U-571

TV Shows/Series with David Ayer as Crew(3)

Directing/Director2020 Deputy
Production/Executive Producer2020 Deputy
Writing/Screenplay2017 Training Day

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Full Name: David Ayer
Born: Thursday, 01/18 1968 (January) in Champaign, Illinois (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 56 years + 99 days)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Member of: Writers Guild of America, West
David Ayer frequently works together with these people:
Gary Leva (10x, Crew)
Mary Vernieu (9x, Crew)
Lindsay Graham Ahanonu (7x, Crew)
Jaime FitzSimons (7x, Actor)
Noel Gugliemi (6x, Actor)
Will Beall (6x, Crew)
Yoram Astrakhan (6x, Crew)
Margot Robbie (5x, Actress)
Shane Black (5x, Crew)
John Lee Hancock (5x, Crew)
Mike Gunther (5x, Crew)
Kevin Vance (5x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:4349, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/21/2024